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mish mash moo…

I had a good time yesterday pulling out fabrics out of the tubs for a special project. I love looking at them, touching them and recalling where/when I bought them, etc. The stash has grown quite a bit in these 2 years. Thanks to international shipping and thanks to quilt/sewing books that inspire me to start on ‘future projects’ :p

A small stack that was pulled from tubs

Iron, cut, toss... repeat 100x

I absolutely HEART this print.

Sneak peak!

Half way done (cutting only). I’m loving this project – cutting into every piece of fabric I have for a scrappy look, no colours in mind, same dimension for every single piece (5″ charm), and taking my time with it 🙂 Seems like I’m getting out of my quilting funk! 😉

Gunning for it

License to glue! This is me loose with my hot glue gun. After a thumb-bruising and nail breaking button-making session, I bagged a really cool fabric-covered button collection. They will be turned into push-pins, magnets and bookmarkers… Here’s a sneak peak ;>

Love love love these 30's prints. The tiny flower and leave motifs are perfect for the 1/2" button-push-pins.

Love love love these 30's prints. The tiny flower and leaf motifs are perfect for the 1/2" button-push-pins.

The tone-on-tone swirly print reminds me of POPSICLES which I'm absolutely craving for me right now...

Another tone on tone favourite of mine. Because the buttons are small, they brought out the tiny flower motifs in the print.

Going mushroom mad again, this time with these Jumbo bookmarkers! The 1 1/8" sized mushroomy buttons are soooo cute!

Popping buttons…

I’m still in a quilting funk… :p But I’ll be out of it REALLY soon. Promise… Fabrics are washed, ready to be cut, and I’ve it all planned out… REALLY! 😀

See the a new thingy on the right side of this blog? Look now: See the ‘My Shop‘ sign? Yep. I set-up shop on Etsy last night and so far I managed to get some crayon wallets up. hooray!

In the mean time, these buttons are all I have to show for. For now.

:: Mushroom madness ::

:: Sweet treats ::

For the boys…

May has a nice sort of buzz. Busy sort of ‘buzz’… In the past weeks, we have been blessed with many happy occasions: birthdays, arrivals of babies, news of soon-to-arrive babies, new opportunities, etc. I don’t know, but I felt these personal feel-good events countered the negativities covered in the press: the economy, swine-flu, AWARE tussle, etc…

Hubby and I also made some plans to move forward with our ‘hobby site’ which he set-up in the late ’90s, servicing the Beanie babies crazed online community. The idea of a ‘baby gift ideas site’ has been tossed around for the LONGEST time, given that we are such ‘big’ consumers of baby items/gifts and I felt that the parents in SG are quite shortchanged in terms of cost and variety.

More updates about THE PLAN coming up soon, I hope ;>

In the mean time, I’m caught in a bit of a ‘quilting funk’ which I can’t seem to shake off. So, I made

more of these:

If you are interested in getting one of these fabric wallets for a special little chap, each costs SGD$18 (comes with 8 Crayola non-toxic crayons + 1x100sheet memo pad). Please add $2 if you prefer Crayola non-toxic WASHABLE crayons.

Crayon Wallets for little girls

More cupcakes crayon wallets.

Difference is that I’m getting paid for them now! (cue The Count laugher)

A friend custom-ordered 2 of these crayon wallets and I made one extra with left-over fabrics.

If you are interested in getting your hands on a fabric wallet, it costs SGD$18.00 (comes with 8 crayons + 1×100-sheet memo pad). Please add $2 if you’d prefer washable crayons.